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1krazykitty
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DH and breastfeeding
1krazykitty
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Were your husbands apprehensive about the amount of time you planned to breasted for? Dh thinks I should wean at 6months the latest. What resources did you use to educate and convince your husbands otherwise? I think the biggest problem is that he has never been exposed to breastfeeding and I think his gold standard is 3months (old school ideology?!)
Also, my boobies are a huge-HUGE- part of my sexuality. They are very sensitive and can instantly break my will! lol So, when the babies are born there will be a swtich in my brain that changes that right? I just can't imagine them as being for anything other than play. After BF do they return to being toys?
Fraternal twin boys born 1/12/12 at 36 weeks
Identical twin girls expected in March!
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Re: DH and breastfeeding
My husband wasn't apprehensive about it, he really didn't have an opinion about it except for that he knew it was good and wanted me to do it. I b/f my first for 15 months. (just 1x a day after 12m). Honestly if you WANT to breastfeed, do it until you want to stop or the babies want to stop, not him! Sorry that's probably wrong but I didn't even consider my husband when I thought about how long I would b/f for (LOL that's probably bad, don't know!)
And I'm sure everyone is different but after I b/f my son I never got back that sexual pleasure from them!
Good luck!
No. DH took a BF class with me. He was very supportive and left the decision on when to wean up to me. After all, it was my body! He was great to attend the class with. When I encountered problems later, he was the one to recall a lot of the info we learned.
Maybe try to have him go to a class? Also, is he aware of the benefits to your child about BF?
Have you explained why YOU want to BF?
Girls, my DH is crazy...the funny thing is...he is insistant that I breastfeed for three months! lol. no less no more?
we plan on taking bradley birth classes which cover breastfeeding and I know he will come around once he knows the facts. I think the media has sucessfully scared Dh, he is terrified of me nursing the babies too long, to the point of "creepy"
No, my husband was very supportive of me BF for as long as I wanted and assumed I would be doing it for at least a year. All of his sister did extended BF with all of their kids, so he was a great support for me.
I am still debating on when to wean. I still nurse 3 times a day. I am hoping the babies will start weaning themselves soon, but my plan is to wean at 18 months.
as for the sexuality issue, my boobs are for milk right now, so I have no idea if they will return to being for play. My husband sure hopes that they return to being his toys.
My H was 100% supportive, so I can't really identify, but I will tell you that the breastfeeding class we took was great. I recommend you drag your H to a class that is all about breastfeeding. And if he still protests after that, tell him to back off--it's your body, your call. :-)
My DH was supportive of breastfeeding. However, only V could latch on. My other son had issues and received expressed breast milk in a bottle. DH didn't think it was fair for one to get the breast and the other a bottle. After a week I ended up giving both a bottle because it was just easier and less time consuming than breastfeeding, pumping and bottle feeding.